diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/working-copy/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/working-copy/chapter.xml
index 007a6cb061..7667f7e05a 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/working-copy/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/working-copy/chapter.xml
@@ -98,12 +98,12 @@
       copy of the latest version (<literal>head</literal>) of
       the main documentation tree:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/doc/head ~/doc</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn checkout <replaceable>https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/doc/head</replaceable> <replaceable>~/doc</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
     <para>A checkout of the source code to work on manual pages is
       very similar:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/head ~/src</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn checkout <replaceable>https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/head</replaceable> <replaceable>~/src</replaceable></userinput></screen>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 xml:id="working-copy-updating">
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
       <command>svn update</command> on the directory containing the
       local working copy:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn update ~/doc</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn update <replaceable>~/doc</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Get in the protective habit of using
       <command>svn update</command> before editing document files.
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@
       by redirecting the output of <command>svn diff</command> into a
       file:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd ~/doc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff &gt; doc-fix-spelling.diff</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd <replaceable>~/doc</replaceable></userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff &gt; <replaceable>doc-fix-spelling.diff</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Give the file a meaningful name that identifies the
       contents.  The example above is for spelling fixes to the whole
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@
       be submitted yet, provide a list of only the files that are to
       be included:</para>
 
-    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd ~/doc</userinput>
-&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff disks/chapter.xml printers/chapter.xml &gt; disks-printers.diff</userinput></screen>
+    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>cd <replaceable>~/doc</replaceable></userinput>
+&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff <replaceable>disks/chapter.xml printers/chapter.xml</replaceable> &gt; <replaceable>disks-printers.diff</replaceable></userinput></screen>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 xml:id="working-copy-subversion-references">